Priscilla Mullins and John Alden wed, symbolizing the continuity of life in a true pastoral image.
Jul 20, 2022
11 min
The essence of each poet: Chaucer and Shakespearre
Jul 6, 2022
8 min
A young man learns of the death of his beloved when he comes upon a strange ceremony.
Jun 29, 2022
10 min
The poet recounts an apocryphal story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and then asks "whose was theright and the wrong?"
Jun 22, 2022
10 min
The poet asks our sympathy for a woman the world considers unworthy of sympathy.
Jun 15, 2022
8 min
The poet fancies himself related to a willow tree and laments the negative influence of Puritanism on New England and American culture
Jun 8, 2022
14 min
A "beatiful youth" is killled by a sharpshooter's bullet in the Civil War. The bullet continues on to his hometown, where it takes another life.
May 25, 2022
9 min
Longfellow remembers the burial of his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne
May 18, 2022
8 min
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